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From: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] build system: section garbage collection - rename sections
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:29:50 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi,

Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> 
> On Saturday 24 November 2007 15:14, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > 1.fixname:
> >     Rename all special sections with names like .text.xxxx, .data.xxxx and
> >     .rodata.xxxx to .xxxx.text/data/rodata. This makes it possible to
> >     not mix up these sections with gcc-generated ones
> >     when gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections is used.
> >     .bss.xxxx cannot be treated this way, because for section names
> >     linke .xxxx.bss gcc won't create section with correct attribute.
> >     Thus .bss.xxxxx sections are renamed .bss.k.xxxxx.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux <at> googlemail.com>
Why not rename all the section to .type.k.xxxxx ?
This will be more consistent between bss and other section. Also I find it
cleaner to have the section type first.

Matthieu 


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